Peter Milley

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• PhD
• Director at University of Ottawa

While many studies on external accountability forms have illustrated the impact on the prevailing conceptions and values about the nature of school organizations, still little is known about the active role of school leaders as sense-makers who deal with conflicting accountability demands. We argue that while multiple external accountability forms...

Purpose: Recently, social innovation (SI) has captured the imagination of a range of actors globally, including in the higher education (HE) sector. This study explores the conceptual domain of SI leadership in HE. Drawing on the insights of 22 experienced practitioners in Canada, it provides a concept map to help guide leadership practice and rese...

This chapter introduces the purpose and rationale behind the need for a collected edition on the implications for educational policy and administration of a global resurgence of populism since the turn of the New Millennium. It discusses the contemporary populist dynamics, canvasses the existing knowledge base on populism in the social sciences, hu...

We offer concluding thoughts on a volume of ten chapters from nine countries addressing the implications of a global resurgence of populism for educational leadership, policy, and administration. We identify influences of populism on educational governance, policies, professionalism, autonomy, academic freedom and the (mis)treatment of ‘others’ and...

School district administrators play an important role in communicating with and persuading their constituents to embrace policy ideologies and enact policy directions. The authors illustrate how political skills need to be considered in the preparation of administrators for their roles and how these skills are important when responding to populist...

Les récentes politiques publiques cherchent à instituer des changements à grande échelle pour réaliser l’équité et l’excellence dans les écoles. Celles-ci s’appuient sur divers instruments d’action publique pour encourager tous les acteurs du système à se concerter et à modifier leurs pratiques et croyances afin d’assurer une cohérence systémique d...

Les politiques éducatives et les mesures qu’elles mettent à disposition des écoles afin de faciliter la mise en place de services accessibles et concertés en matière de santé mentale peuvent avoir un impact auprès des élèves réfugiés et demandeurs d’asile. Cette étude a pour but d’analyser la manière dont les politiques éducatives, traitant explici...

We conducted a rapid scoping review of empirical studies to identify how persons with intellectual and other cognitive disabilities have been engaged as active members of research and evaluation teams. We conducted a literature search using a systematic method that accessed peer reviewed studies in relevant library databases and all major evaluatio...

Despite data increasingly being used to advance equity in education, students with and seeking refugee protection (SWSRP) are largely invisible in education data. To equitably include SWSRP in national education systems as envisioned by global refugee education policy, data on their needs are required. The purpose of this study was to source, organ...

Social enterprise is emerging as a promising means of creating flexible employment transitions for people with intellectual disabilities. It has been adopted as an option largely in response to the extended periods of work adjustment and ongoing supportive work environments typical for this population, as well as challenges in identifying suitable...

This book explores the theoretical and practical implications of a global resurgence of populism on educational leadership. Drawing together a wide range of international authors, it examines how socio-cultural and political populist developments affect educational policies, organisations, and administration around the world. The collection addres...

This study assesses the coherence of Canada’s educational policy regime with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) Refugee Education 2030 strategy. We articulate a theoretical framework that combines theories about policy coherence, policy attributes, and policy tools, which informs a two-phase methodology. First, we conducted...

A variety of problematic administrative, organisational and institutional behaviours exist in the internationalising higher education sector globally. These vexing behaviours need to be addressed to fully realise the desired outcomes of the internationalisation movement. Encapsulating these behaviours under the concept of maladministration, we desc...

To continue functioning and adhere to physical/social distancing regulations during COVID-19, post-secondary institutions transitioned courses online, including those with experiential learning components. Experiential learning occurs when students apply course theory and concepts in real-world situations. Types of experiential learning include, fo...

Curriculum policy implementation occurs within a network of state, district, school, and classroom level policies that operate within and around educators' use of formal curriculum policy documents. Starting from this observation, we report a study of teacher can-didates' policy framing activities in their use of citizenship education curriculum po...

This chapter highlights troubling issues and patterns of administrative and organizational behavior emerging in the internationalization of the higher education sector. Empirical examples are also presented for evidentiary and illustrative purposes. We pursue three objectives: i) to describe comprehensively these issues and patterns of behavior, ii...

Written after making an official request for tenure and promotion to the rank of associate professor after five years on the “tenure track”, this chapter updates a personal narrative articulated 18 months into a mid-career transition to an assistant professorship in educational administration. The theoretical perspective links the stages of grief f...

There has been global growth in the number of social innovation initiatives launched in the university sector over the last decade. These initiatives aim to address complex social problems and to promote institutional change. This surge is occurring without a well-developed empirical knowledge base. This article provides a comprehensive description...

There has been global growth in the number of social innovation initiatives launched in the university sector over the last decade. These initiatives aim to address complex social problems and to promote institutional change. This surge is occurring without a well-developed empirical knowledge base. This article provides a comprehensive description...

There has been global growth in the number of social innovation initiatives launched in the university sector over the last decade. These initiatives aim to address complex social problems and to promote institutional change. This surge is occurring without a well-developed empirical knowledge base. This article provides a comprehensive description...

There has been global growth in the number of social innovation initiatives launched in the university sector over the last decade. These initiatives aim to address complex social problems and to promote institutional change. This surge is occurring without a well-developed empirical knowledge base. This article provides a comprehensive description...

Food insecurity is a pervasive and persistent issue across Canada, where a growing number of people are accessing food banks. Conventional food banks may offer relief for immediate needs but typically have limited capacity to address longer-term food insecurity. This paper focuses on the Parkdale Food Centre in Ottawa, ON, which provides food assis...

Educational Administration and Leadership Identity Formation explores approaches and issues that arise in leadership identity formation in a variety of educational contexts. Bringing together a range of national and international contributions, this volume provides a global perspective on this multi-dimensional topic. This book examines the theore...

The purpose here is to present a partial taxonomy of the field to show how many parts of this literature have implications for, and play an important role in, educational systems, including their governance, administration and leadership.

This chapter examines postcolonial and Indigenous critiques of dominating and colonising knowledge traditions internationally that have negatively affected identity in many populations and nations and that have implications for education and its administration and leadership. These collectively provide a range of arguments for decolonising the fiel...

State-mandated curriculum policy documents have an important political function. Governments use them to make ideological statements about the role of schools and how the next generation of citizens are to be shaped. Beginning from this premise, we use a frame analysis methodology to examine how citizenship in the Province of Ontario, Canada is fra...

Academic researchers tend not to study dysfunctional, disturbing or malfeasant administrative and organizational behaviors in the higher education (HE) sector; yet, a variety troubling things regularly take place in HE. This article offers some ‘conceptual spadework’ to open up the muted discussion about this disquieting aspect of the sector. We de...

The last decade has witnessed growth globally in the number of social innovation initiatives launched in the university sector. These initiatives aim to address complex social problems and to induce institutional and systemic change. The surge in social innovation activity is taking place without a well-developed empirical knowledge base. This pres...

Stakeholders in Canadian higher education want universities to make economic and social contributions at local, regional and national levels. One way universities have been responding is through the launch of social innovation initiatives. This study aims to tap the insights of practitioners and supporters of social innovation in university setting...

Since the 1980s, Dr. J. Bradley Cousins has worked systematically to produce an impressive body of empirically and theoretically informed scholarship in program evaluation, where his work is seen to help comprise a “branch” in the “tree of knowledge” (Alkin, 2004, 2012). Although Cousins is most well-known for his work in that field, he cut his sch...

Neoliberal ideologies emphasizing markets and competition in public services have characterized Canadian policy for decades, including education. This chapter provides a critical but balanced reflection on the influence of neoliberalism on assessment policies and practices in Canadian schools and schooling systems. We define neoliberalism through a...

Neoliberal ideologies emphasizing markets and competition in public services have characterized Canadian policy for decades, including education. This chapter provides a critical but balanced reflection on the influence of neoliberalism on assessment policies and practices in Canadian schools and schooling systems. We define neoliberalism through a...

This edited collection develops a theoretical and critical foundation for understanding "maladministration"— the phenomena of harmful administrative and organizational behaviours in educational systems. Chapter authors provide theoretical and practice-based perspectives across international contexts regarding common destructive practices that occur...

Social innovations (SIs) frequently bring previously unrelated actors, ideas, and practices together in new configurations with the goal of addressing social needs. However, the dizzying variety of definitions of SI and their dynamic, exploratory character raise dilemmas for evaluators tasked with their evaluations. This article is based on a syste...

This chapter is inspired by Samier’s (2008 ) conceptual study of administrative ethics in education that called for frameworks to illuminate the twin problems of maladministration and moral passivity, indicating Critical Theory held promise. In response, I outline a theoretical framework based on Habermas’ (1984 , 1989 ) critical theory of social a...

‘There is a Sufi tale about a person who noticed a disturbing bump under a rug. He tried to smooth out the rug, but every time he did so, the bump reappeared. In utter frustration, he finally lifted up the rug, and to his great surprise, out slid an angry snake’ ( Kets de Vries 2004 : 183). Kets de Vries maintains that in management studies too man...

Social innovation has gained prominence as a way to address social problems and needs. Evaluators and social innovators are conceptualizing and implementing evaluation approaches for social innovation contexts; however, no systematic effort has yet been made to explore and assess the overlap between evaluation and social innovation based on the emp...

Social innovation has gained prominence as a way to address social problems and needs. Evaluators and social innovators are conceptualizing and implementing evaluation approaches for social innovation contexts; however, no systematic effort has yet been made to explore and assess the overlap between evaluation and social innovation based on the emp...

The inclusion of stakeholders in participatory evaluation in highly diverse, culturally complex settings remains a challenge, given issues of inequity, power, voice, capacity and skill. These challenges are well documented, but there is a relative absence of papers devoted to addressing them based on examples and evidence. In this paper, we report...

Social innovation (SI) is billed as a new way to address complex social problems. Interest in SI has intensified rapidly in the last decade, making it an important area of practice for evaluators, but a difficult one to navigate. Learning from developments in SI and evaluation approaches applied in SI contexts is challenging because of ‘fuzzy’ conc...

A personal narrative is presented about challenges related to a transition at mid-life and mid-career to the academic tenure-track in education. Drawing on theories of resilience from ecology (Holling, 2001) and developmental psychology (Masten & O’Dougherty Wright, 2010), the narrative assesses personal strategies and responses in terms of whether...

The last 3 decades have witnessed the rise of reforms aimed at conjoining Canadian universities to the economic system. Critics have pointed out how reforms have emphasized economic utility in universities to the detriment of their sociocultural mission, producing negative effects. One curricular innovation that has spread in tandem with reforms is...

This paper draws on empirical studies on evaluation practices in social innovation contexts published between 2000-2015. We focus on mapping the landscape of the current empirical knowledge base, identifying forces and influences driving evaluation practices, and how these practices affect social innovations. We identify implications for practice a...

Educational administration is a rich domain of scholarship and practice, but one subject rarely discussed is its dark side. This study explored the question: What types of maladministration occur in schooling systems? The goal was to develop findings to inform existing prevention strategies. Focused on the Canadian context, data sources included 64...

French as a second language (FSL) education is mandatory in Ontario from Grades 4 to 9. The majority of students enrol in Core French (CF), which has an obligatory status in policy but is marginalized in practice. Our study aimed to illuminate the dynamics behind this paradox, drawing from research on the nature of principals' work and instructiona...

Public administration scholars have discerned a shift in the federal govern-ance context in Canada, from what was traditionally a strong, nonpartisan public service to a more politicized, even partisan, model of public decision-making with power concentrated in the upper reaches of the political executive. We explore the potential implications of t...

It can be argued that participatory evaluation and social pedagogy share several interconnections given their respective developments and evolutions. In this paper we explore affinities between these two domains of inquiry in order to understand points of intersection and departure at deeper levels that has occurred to date. Following a recent revi...

It can be argued that participatory evaluation and social pedagogy share several interconnections given their respective developments and evolutions. In this paper we explore affinities between these two domains of inquiry in order to understand points of intersection and departure at deeper levels that has occurred to date. Following a recent revi...

Thursica Kovinthan is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include citizenship education, gender equality in education, and conflict and post-conflict education. Thursica received her M.A. in Child Study and Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and her BSc. from the...

We live in an increasingly interconnected, complex world. Concerns have been raised about the capacity of governments to cope with the disruptions that emerge out of this context. The concept of resilience offers a credible strategy, but its potential contribution in light of increased complexity in governance contexts has not been widely researche...

Public administration has been operating without the benefit of a guiding theory or up-to-date framework for quite some time, a situation that deprives public servants of a frame of reference to guide their actions. This gap has generated risk aversion in public organizations at a time when innovation and creativity in government are most needed. T...

Educational organisations and learning processes are ‘powerhouses of emotion’ (Harris 2007: 3). They are sites of pleasure, excitement, joy, fulfilment, and minefields of disappointment, envy, fear, anguish, depression, humiliation, grief, and guilt (Ackerman and Maslin-Ostrowski 2004). Thus it should not be surprising that there are important emot...

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2005. Includes bibliographical references. This dissertation reports the findings of an ethnographic, multi-case study centred on ten undergraduate co-operative education (co-op) students from different academic disciplines at one Canadian university. In co-op programs, students alternate semesters of academi...

This paper provides a philosophical and methodological analysis which aims to support research on social justice in educational organizations. It traces a path from Thomas Greenfield’s ethical formulations to the moral philosophy of Jurgen Habermas and does so in order to query the ethical implications of following Greenfield in imagining education...

In this paper I report and interpret focus group data regarding the educational experiences of five humanities undergraduate students who are pursuing a "relevant" education for the knowledge society through participation in co-operative education (co-op). My focus in this paper is on the meaning(s) the participants construct regarding 'skill'. The...